Modern Day Satire

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February 11th, 2011 Put the Pedal to the Medal On a snowy afternoon after the school bells rand my friends and I ventured out into the parking lot. It is always a zoo out there; cars starting up in every direction and students talking in all corners. Making our way to the car is not the issue, getting out of the parking lot without being in an accident, on the other hand, is awfully irritating. There are constantly other students trying to maneuver their vehicle out of the lot in a rush to leave school. Once we actually got out of the White Bear South Campus parking lot we took a new road where not many others were headed thinking to ourselves that there would be much less traffic. To our surprise, there was a profusion of traffic. The problem here is that it has been snowing all day and this made the roads slippery and unsafe. While making our way down the road we saw a gathering of different cars slipping into the snow banks. We of course as teenagers just laughed it away and thought to ourselves ‘learn how to drive dummy’. As we continued on our way there was this young girl driving behind us in a black Saturn Ion. She felt that is was completely necessary to pass us then cut us off on White Bear Avenue. Too bad for her, about two miles down the road on the ‘S’ curves karma came and smacked her right in the…show more content…
I will still continue to live my life as a normal teenage driver but more alert to the other drivers around me. I want to live a full life, and my chances decrease when I am in a car without wearing my seat belt and-or not focusing on the road conditions along with the millions of other drivers. I feel as if the greatest lesson anyone can learn is driving is not a right, it is a privilege. You are in control of a machine that has the power to injure you along with every other human being that is in the path that driver is

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